To the Editor of the Norru-Cuiva Dairy News.
Sin,—Some little time ago a very excellent proclamation was issued by the Taotai ordering the keepers of tea-houses on the Bubbling Well Road to close their establishments at 11 p.m., which regulation the Council through their Chairman promised to assist in enforcing. Evidently they have never done anything since; the nightly noise on the is worse than ever—hundreds of traps continue to run between the Settlement and the Well up to four o'clock in the morning, the occupants frequently making the most intolerable noise.
The ponies are treated in the most cruel manner, a number being, through overwork, unable to do more than walk, it not being an infrequent occurrence for one of the poor brutes to drop dead on the road, when, as last night, the occupants of the conv ance refuse payment, at the same time hurling the choicest Chinese epithets at the driver, he retaliating in the same flower truly it is hard lines on would-be slee]
At the hour named, 4 a.m. when the revellers retire, the breaking in of ponies in veritable rattletraps commences, and about the same time the thunders from the Arsenal are also heard. It would materially add to the revenue of the Council if a toll-bar were erected on the Shanghai end of the Loong Fei Bridge and a charge made for each passenger crossing after eleven p.mi., anid to inagarate that the country is a land of dense jungles, the thing properly I would recommend that for the first few weeks the members of the cently imperfectly known; any hurried con-Council should take charge of the Bar" rection of railways under sich circum-1888. either. produce funds er decrease. the trafin turns—this, as si above, would saves herald have besnalendoertaa useless for commercial purposes, and would profic and give residents on the road a rest. bably have given ground for some situilar It seems to me that the Captain-Super-joke to that levelled against the first toad intendent of Police does not move very in Selangor (from Dama-Sara to Kwallscuergetially in his duties without they Lumpor, now abandoned) which was said are vicarly pointed out to him. to go over every hill, and through every Yours faithfully, swamp to be found in the distance traversed.
12th July. that the authorities in the Straits Bettle-It is now, however, conclusively apparent
ments have at no time lost sight of the im-
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